Statistical presentation

Data description

The data collection covers transport done by Danish registered goods road vehicles. Transport by own account and for reward are both included. Empty journeys are included.

The statistics are based on survey on a sample of Danish registered road goods vehicles used for goods transport.

Road goods transport by vehicles only used for collection of domestic waste was not included in the statistics before 4th quarter 2009.

Transport with lorries not used for transport of goods is not included in the statistics. It can be specialised vehicles (mobile libraries, fire trucks, cranes, tow truck, school vehicle, snow plow, sweepers, etc.) and vehicles only used for internal transport outside public accessible roads.

The main variables are data on the vehicle, vehicle-kilometres, place of loading and unloading (by provinces), weight of goods, type of goods, kilometres driven, tonnes-kilometre and empty journeys.

Classification system

The following classifications are used:

• Types of dangerous goods. Class or subclass in accordance with the ADR convention, cf. Council Directive 94/55/EC
• Geographical division according to NUTS classification
• Types of goods by a Danish adjusted version of NST 2007 classification

Sector coverage

Goods transport on roads.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Axles: Number of axles or sets of wheels.

Empty journey: An empty journey starts when an empty goods road vehicle moves from a place of unloading or depot/garage and ends when the vehicle at another place is loaded or parked in a depot/garage.

Goods road vehicle: A road vehicle designed to transport goods, i.e. a lorry or road tractor.

Gross weight of goods: Weight of goods including packaging but excluding weight of transport unit, e.g. container or pallets.

Journey: A journey is the movement of a goods road vehicle from a place of loading to a place of unloading or vice versa. A journey can include stops for breaks, rests etc. A journey can be without goods (cf. empty journey). A journey can be in several stages if during a journey goods are loaded or unloaded at several stops, e.g. roundtrips.

Journey with load: A journey with load starts by loading an empty goods road vehicle and ends when the vehicle is unloaded at another place.

Load capacity: Load capacity for goods road vehicle. In case of road trains the total load capacity for the whole road train.

Roundtrip: A roundtrip is a multiple stage journey and is either a collection trip where an initially empty vehicle are gradually loaded at several stops or a distribution trip where a loaded vehicle is gradually unloaded at several stops.

Tonne-kilometre: A measure representing the movement of one tonne of goods by goods road vehicle over one kilometre.

Total laden weight: Total laden weight is the total permissible weight including vehicle and goods.

Type of goods: Type of goods by the NST-2007 classification.

Type of transport: Transport by own account or for rent or hire.

Type of vehicle: The type of goods road vehicle, e.g. lorry or articulated vehicle.

Vehicle age in years: Vehicle age is the age of the vehicle since date of first registration.

Vehicle-kilometre: A unit of measure representing the movement of a road vehicle over one kilometer.

Statistical unit

The unit is a journey.

Statistical population

Danish registered goods road vehicles above 6 tonnes maximum permissible laden weight used for freight

Reference area

Worldwide transport by Danish registered goods road vehicles.

Time coverage

4th quarter1999-

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

• vehicle-kilometres in kilometres
• weight of goods in tonnes
• tonne-kilometre in tonne-kilometres
• empty journeys in number of journeys

Reference period

The reference period is a quarter.

Frequency of dissemination

Quarterly.

Legal acts and other agreements

Data collection is authorised by the Act on Statistics Denmark, consolidated act No 610 of May 30, 2018, section 8, subsection 1.

EC-legislation

• Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25 May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 2691/1999 of 17 December 1999 on rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 2163/2001 of 7 November 2001 concerning the technical arrangements for data transmission for statistics on the carriage of goods by road
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/2003 of 30 December 2002 concerning the dissemination of statistics on the carriage of goods by road
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 642/2004 of 6 April 2004 on precision requirements for data collected in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road

Cost and burden

There is no recent data on the cost of response burden.

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